So a "Hypercarnivore" is any species of animal whose natural diet is 70% or more meat. In order for this not to be a stupid name/categorization, I'd expect two things to be true: 1) this category is especially carnivorous 2) A large proportion of members of this category are in the 70-99%...

are there meters to see how much data is transferred per page? This seems like an important thing for wireless and especially satellite-based users. I'd be curious to see how much data each page is transferring, even if it doesn't mean anything to me. The major browsers all have "developer too...

Going off-topic, so spoilering my response to Eebster the Great. As you say, you're just speculating. Besides the TED talk which is based on serious research, so am I, at least with regard to the specific question of the speed of thought of a fly. I find it highly ironic, if unfair, that we (...

I don't know whether there is evidence for a general correlation between perception of time and body size, but I do find it plausible. Anyway, flies really do think much faster than humans. Also, my impression is that my cats think faster than I do (even if they understand less overall).

As programming environments become more powerful, the task of programming may merge with the task of instruction. If that were to occur, then neither people nor robots would have been replaced; the job itself would have become obsolete. Interesting perspective. In the long run, robots will be keepi...

a class of programming bugs i often commit involve mistaking the "representation" of a variable -- such as adding degrees and radians, treating a coordinate in the camera-frame as a coordinate in the world-frame, or forgetting to swap the channels of an image from BGR to RGB. this can be ...

[...] this church routinely raises in excess of $1,000,000 for “missions”. To me that’s shocking. Sure, it’s only like $75 in donations from each parishioner because it’s a massive church, but still. That’s not an insignificant amount of money per person. The fact that they use it for evangelizing ...

Will robots replace programmers? I find this question strange. If robots "replace" programmers, than surely those robots are programmers? I'll take the liberty to interpret your question as "will robots replace humans?". I think that if the human collective is smart enough to in...

I live in the Netherlands. Maybe we can meet if you go anywhere near the Randstad (which I recommend)! Some very broad recommendations given your interests (scenery, railways and tech): ⋅ City centers (and railway stations) of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht (you don't have to ...

Some more quick notes on cross-platform mobile apps with Cordova and similar tools: Adding to what WanderingLinguist already wrote, there are a few reasons why something like Cordova doesn't save as much time as you might hope. ⋅ A WebView environment is not quite the same as a browser...

I don't think C or C++ needs to be a dead end per se, but otherwise I agree with everything Xanthir wrote. Just being able to program at all already gets you pretty far if you want to get a well paid job as a programmer. Using a version control system like Git will benefit you a lot, already before ...

Reuse functionality from libraries whenever you can and try to keep your functions as short as possible. Yes, but extensive reliance on the 3rd party libraries and frameworks can also be a sign of incompetence. Who told you that? In my book, extensive reliance on libraries is a sign of professional...

As Yakk said, it is much easier to make money with programming if you work in a team. Therefore, if this is your goal, you should strive for being hired by an organization. If it is a big organization, they will also train you, which will be an advantage for the rest of your career. As Tub mentioned...

jQuery is largely obsolete (unless you want to support IE8 or something). Modern browsers have native APIs that do the same, just faster, better and more consistent. Use native selectors instead of $('.myclass'). Use css transitions/animations instead of jquery anims. Use DocumentFragment (or an ac...

I have a suggestion which is not directly "easy to program" because you have to learn some new things first, but: in the long term, you can make programming (in JavaScript) easier for yourself by using some libraries. You could start with jQuery and Lodash.

I heard that eating dietary supplements that are intended for humans are a common cause of death among pets. While I don't have a link ready to support this, I think this shouldn't be surprising. Most substances are toxic if taken in too high amounts and as Soupspoon already said, pets tend to have ...

I'm barely more than a layperson when it comes to AI stuff, but my gut feeling for this is unless you want to reinvent the wheel purely for learning/fun purposes the important thing is to choose the framework/library you want to use and then use a language which works with that. I realize that that...

Hey folks! I'm a long time member and I recall I've introduced myself in here at least twice before, but I've been away for a while, some things in my life changed during that time, and I just caught up with the last page of this thread. So I thought another introduction wouldn't hurt. Actually, I d...

I have several good options, but I'll pick my mentorship during the International Junior Science Olympiad in December. I was taking care of the Georgian team and we got along very well. I also made friends with the other mentors. All the logistic chaos actually made it very stressful, but I hold dea...

You remember when 9/11 happened. I was just getting out of high school when a rumor went around about an accident with a plane flying into the WTC in New York. Soon after that, I arrived at home and I saw the second plane flying into the other tower, live on TV. I remember everyone in the room bein...